News and announcements

This is an alpha release of the 0.5 series. It is released for testing and
early feedback.For a list of changes refer to the changelog [1]. Final
release is not scheduled yet but it is expected to follow by the end of
February 2014.

The new release source tarball has been uploaded to pypi [2] and is
immediately available.

The Debian SVN packaging repository has been updated [3]. You may expect
that new versions of PlainBox packages will show up the Debian and Ubuntu
archives in two or three days.

Today we've released version 0.7.1 of Checkbox. This is a bugfix release to tackle a couple of major bugs that people have been encountering while upgrading to Jaunty or trying to run Checkbox in Jaunty.